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Your View: Don’t let Mideast peace slip from our grasp again
By Richard Master The Morning Call | Jun 15, 2021 at 7:00 AM Twenty-eight years ago, in 1993, I accompanied Lehigh Valley Congressman Paul McHale on a mission to the Middle East. Paul and I had a close working relationship the previous year. I was working for Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign in the Lehigh Valley, and Paul was running for Congress. That summer, I accompanied Paul, who was part of a delegation of 10 members of Congress who traveled to Israel.
Should Public Health Care Replace Employer-Sponsored Insurance?
The current system is an albatross around the neck of American businesses. Employer-based health insurance in the U.S. is the result of a quirk of history. During World War II, U.S. companies competed for a limited pool of workers. Fearing crippling wage inflation, the federal government imposed a wage freeze. To recruit workers, companies began offering health insurance as a benefit, which the government then made tax-exempt. Now, employer-provided health insurance covers 152 million Americans.
Medicare Is Best Way to Cover the Millions of Americans Whose Health Insurance Has Been Taken Away
The Coronavirus crisis has made workers reel. With businesses forced to institute mass layoffs to cope with the economic shutdown forced by COVID-19, over 36 million have lost jobs in the last two months.
Your View by Easton businessman: Coronavirus outbreak highlights value of Medicare for All
It’s mid-March 2020. We have not as yet experienced the full impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, but all Americans feel a profound level of anxiety as we experience massive disruptions in all spheres of human activity. Beyond the physical suffering and the loss of loved ones, we anticipate an economic impact of huge proportions, a recession and possibly worse. The country is shutting down.
GM health care strike fiasco is symptom of broken system
The fact that health care benefits are at the center of a United Auto Workers strike that has shut down production at 33 General Motors plants last week shouldn’t surprise anyone who understands how our private health insurance system has wormed its way into all parts of our economy. From one boss to another, I encourage General Motors to drop its strong-arm tactics in these negotiations, including the boneheaded decision last week to cut off health care benefits to striking workers.
Two entrepreneurs explain why the health insurance industry is a direct threat to the middle class
Image via Shuterstock. by Joe Sanberg September 22, 2019 Written by Richard Master, Joe Sanberg / Independent Media Institute September 22, 2019 Among many recent troubling headlines was this one: “Families Go Deep in Debt to Stay in the Middle Class.” That story came on the heels of a report that consumer debt in the United States hit $14 trillion in the first quarter of the year, a level not seen since just before the financial crash of 2008.
Two entrepreneurs explain why the health insurance industry is a direct threat to middle-class life
Among many recent troubling headlines was this one: “Families Go Deep in Debt to Stay in the Middle Class.” That story came on the heels of a report that consumer debt in the United States hit $14 trillion in the first quarter of the year, a level not seen since just before the financial crash of 2008.
Biden's Wrong. Business Will Want to Pay for Univ. Medicare
Biden's Wrong. Business Will Want to Pay for Univ. Medicare No companies would be let off the hook.
Joe Biden Is Wrong. Businesses Will-and Want to-Pay for Medicare for All
Joe Biden Is Wrong. Businesses Will—and Want to—Pay for Medicare for All Earlier this week, former vice president and current presidential hopeful Joe Biden made one of the more unusual arguments against Medicare for All. “Right now you have this … overwhelming number of employers who are paying into the health care plan. Why let them off the hook?
Commentary: Joe Biden Is Wrong. Businesses Will—and Want to—Pay for Medicare for All
Earlier this week, former vice president and current presidential hopeful Joe Biden made one of the more unusual arguments against Medicare for All. “Right now you have this … overwhelming number of employers who are paying into the health care plan. Why let them off the hook? All the sudden they don’t have to pay anything?” I’m one of those employers, and I’m supportive of Medicare for All, but it’s not about being let off the hook.
Your View: Medicare for all is good business for Pennsylvania
I’m the CEO of a growing consumer products company and proudly employ around 200 people in Easton. One of the biggest strains on my business — and, frankly, all businesses in Pennsylvania — is the high cost of providing health insurance benefits. By a long shot, the U.S. has the most , and it’s hurting my business, my employees, my state and my country. This year, I’ll pay over $2.5 million to cover health care benefits alone. Why?
Amazon's health care experiment shows exactly why we need Medicare for All
We have to remove profit from the health care equation, just like Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase intend to do. Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase announced last week that they would be forming a new company aimed at reducing employee health care costs. This decision was a response to what small, mid-sized and large business owners and CEOs have known for a long time: The private insurance system is strangling the U.S. economy.
USG and AEC Cares Help Chicago Families
The transformation of a run-down, 30-year-old former school building into a bright, cheerful and modern daycare and early learning center for disadvantaged children, has filled a South Side Chicago community and its families with hope. A team of USG employees, working alongside AEC Cares and other volunteers devoted their time to a daylong “building blitz” which helped create a fresh, safe environment for hundreds of Chicago families.
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